different between cottage vs cortege

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.

Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/
• Hyphenation: cot?tage

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

   Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

Related terms

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

Descendants

• ? French: cottage

Translations

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Further reading

• cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.ta?/

Noun

cottage m (plural cottages)

1. cottage

Portuguese

Noun

cottage m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)

English

Alternative forms

• cortège

Etymology

Borrowed from French cortège.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???t??/
• IPA^(key): /?k??.t??/

Noun

cortege (plural corteges)

1. A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a king.
   • 1660: Samuel Pepys, Diary - Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two...

Synonyms

• entourage
• gang
• group
• followership
• posse
• retinue

Translations

See also

• sycophant
• lackey
• groupie
• cohors amicorum